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The faith of the Catholick church, concerning the Eucharist Invincibly proved by the argument used against the Protestants, in the books of the faith of the perpetuity, written by Mr. Arnaud. A translation from the French.
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Bruzeau, Paul.
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explain what regards the Eucharist QUESTION 106. Which is the third Sacrament IT is the holy Eucharist that is the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ under the appearances of Bread and Wine Jesus Christ being therein truly properly and really present Here is enough for any other than Mr. Claud. But that he may not toil his mind to seek here some evasion I beseech him to hear what is read in the following Interogation it concerns the Conditions necessary for the celebration of this Mystery and it has these express terms In the fourth place the Priest must be perswaded that at the time when he consecrates the holy Gifts the substance of the Bread and the substance Wine is changed into the substance of the True Body and of the True Blood of Jesus Christ by the operation of the Holy Ghost who is invocated at that moment Here is already these mysterious words without which Mr. Claud thinks the Real Presence cannot be expressed nor Transubstantiation and with which he must then avow that it is most formally expressed For himself grants that the word Transubstantiation is not necessary when the matter is thus explained But yet if he will require farther that we let him see the Greek Church using and authorizing it he may be satisfied therein by the following words After the words of Inovocation at the same instant Transubstantiation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is made and the Bread is changed into the True Body of Jesus Christ and the Wine into his True Blood the appearances of the Bread and Wine remaining by a divine Oeconomy First that we may not see the Body of Jesus Christ with our Eyes but by Faith in leaning on those words This is my Body this is my Blood and by so doing that we may prefer his Words and his Power to our own Senses which acquires the beatitude of Faith according to what is said Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed Secondly That because Humane Nature has horrour to eat raw flesh 〈◊〉 that seeing we ought to be united to Jesus Christ by the participation of his Body and Blood that Man might 〈◊〉 have aversion from it God has provided for this Inconvenient in giving to Believers his proper Flesh and and Blood under the vails of Bread and Wine There remains no more to condemn the Calvinists but to determine that this Sacrament ought to be adored with the same Honour that Jesus Christ is worshipped that is to say Latria and that it is a true Sacrifice and these are seen in that Confession in the folding terms The Honour you ought to render to these dreadful Mysteries ought to be the same which you render to Jesus Christ himself So that as St. Peter speaking for all the Apostles said to Jesus Christ Thou art Christ the Son of the Living God so every one of us worshipping with Latria Soveraign Worship these Mysteries ought to say I believe Lord and confess that you are the Christ the Son of the Living God who came to the World to save Sinners of whom I am the chief Moreover this Mystery is offered in Sacrifice for the Orthodox Christians both Living and Dead in hope of the Resurrection to Life eternal And a little after This Mystery is propitiatory before God both for the Living and the Dead The clearness of these Words suppresses all reflections which could do no more but obscure it Hitherto is what was said in the year 1671. But whereas it was thought then by the Characters that this Book had been printed in Holland it was afterwards known to be certain and we have learned the History of it from M◠Nointel Ambassadour of France at the Port who writ to Paris in these terms the year 1672 as is to be seen in the Third Tome of the Perpetuity Book 8. Chap 14. The 15th of February one of my Friends has told me that having dined with M. the Resident of Holland and the Discourse falling upon the Religion of the Greeks mention was made of the Book entituled The Orthodox Confession of the Catholick and Apostolick Church of the East as justifying her Belief of the Real Presence and of Transubstantiation M. the Resident Discoursed of the origine of the printing of this Book for he told him that M Panajotti having sent the Copy into Holland to be printed there on his expences the States would not let his Money be taken but to gain his favour had caused most carefully to print it on their own Charges and had entrusted several Boxes of the Impression to their Resident to be made a present to M. Panajotti The fourth of March I ordered Fontain to go to M. the Resident of Holland to thank him for what he had sent me by his Secretaty before his Voyage to Smyrna and to offer him his Services at the Port whither I was dispatching him He entreated him that he would do me the favour to give me one of these Books entituled The Orthodox Confession of the Catholick and Apostolick Church of the East And to let me know how it was printed and by what means some of the Copies thereof had come to his hands The Resident having testified how sensibly he was obliged by my civility assured Fontain that he and all that was in his House was at my service and he gave him two of the Books which I desired telling him they were the only two that remained and that as to their printing Desbrosses who was here Secretary in the year ....... there being then no Resident was desired by Mr Panajotti to cause print in Holland a form of Catechism which he gave him in a Manuscript declaring that he would make the expences that this Secretary having informed the States they caused print it on their Charges that it cost them four thousand pounds to fill the Boxes in which were many Copies M. the Resident added That being at that time named to come and reside for the States at Constantinople he was appointed by them to take the charge of these Boxes and to make a Present of them to M. Panajotti And that there were a dozen and half of Copies Bound after the Holland manner whereof he presented him twelve and as to the other six there were no more undisposed of save onely these two which he had given me Finally That which should compleat the Conviction of the most incredulous if any could be after what is said is what is set down concerning the same Book of the Orthodox Confession in the said Tome of the Perpetuity Book 8. Chap. 15. In the mean time that these Acts and Attestations of the Greek Church were at the Press the Secretary of the Ambassadour arrived at Paris from Constantinople to bring to his Majesty the Ratification of the Treaty concluded with the Port and brought with him the Originals of several Authentick Attestations which the Patriarchs of the East had entreated the Ambassador to cause present to the
concerning the Eucharist where they say it is contained They are not then there according to his principle Perhaps he will say that our preoccupation hinders us to perceive what seems to him so clear and natural but besides that we will say the same to him we will oppose to him so many millions of Christians of the East and West who for so many preceeding Ages believe the Real Presence and who never perceived that metaphorical and figurative sence We will oppose to him Luther whom Zuinglius considers as one Eye of the Protestant Church Vnum Corpus sumus Caput Christus est alter oculus Lutherus est Zuing. Tom 2. f. 359. who could not perceive this figurative sence be so much desired to incommodate the Papacy with and who was so far from being preoccupied against this figurative explication that on the contrary he had a violent inclination leading him towards it as he declares himself by these words which he adds in his Letter to those of Strasbourg Prohdolor plus aequo in hanc partem propensus sum Mr. Claud then must avow that his belief concerning the Lords Supper is not in holy Scripture seeing we do not perceive it there and seeing so many millions of Christians never found it there I conclude therefore that he is mistaken with all those who imagines as he does that there is nothing so clear and natural as his figurative sence in the Words of Jesus Christ So horrible a mistake in these Gentlemens measures should indeed convince them that all their Arguments must be false and all their ways deceitful And I see nothing more unreasonable than wilfully to continue to follow Guides who draws them so far away from the nature and true rule of Expressions For seeing that the true meaning of the Words of Jesus Christ is doubtless that which he intended to signifie by these words and that the sence in which they were to be taken was not unknown to him can it be doubted that he had the intention to express the meaning in which these words have been actually taken by all the Christians of the World for so many Ages by-gone rather than that in which they were understood by a small number of Berengarians in the Eleventh Age whose Ring-leader did thrice abjure his Doctrine as an Heresie and by a few Sects of the late Age who mutually condemn one another of Errour and Impiety viz. the Socinians the Anabaptists the Quakers the Independents the Calvinists c. I know well that Mr. Claud pretends that the Believers of the first eight Centuries which he calls the fair days of the Church Answer to the Treatise part 2. chap. 3. p. 295. during which he says errour durst not appear did understand the words of Jesus Christ in the sence those of his Religion understands them But we have now right to suppose the contrary as a matter beyond debate because we have proved it in so convincing a manner in the last two Tomes of the Perpetuity that he has not been able to answer to it and we have so secured the proofs of Catholicks from the Cavils and Subtilties of the Ministers that it is impossible they can obscure them But though we had not shewn as we have done in these Works that the Believers of these first Ages had no other Belief concerning the Eucharist but that which we have at present it is enough to have shewn by unquestionable proofs which are reduced to a compend in this Book the union and agreement of all Christian Societies for so many Ages in the belief of the Real Presence because that union and agreement decides instantly the sence of Tradition in letting us see that seeing this Doctrine could not be established by Innovation it must be the original Doctrine of the Church and consequently that the Believers of the first Ages had the same belief concerning this Mystery as those of the following Ages SECT 9. The Argument of the Perpetuity serves also to decide the Controversie concerning the meaning of the expressions of the holy Fathers in matter of the Eucharist THe Argument which proves the Agreement of all the Eastern Societies with the Roman Church in the Belief of the Real Presence for so many Ages does not only shew us Tradition concerning the literal sence of the words of Jesus Christ It also decides instantly the Controversie we have with the Protestants concerning the meaning of those expressions which are found so frequent in the Books of the holy Fathe 1. Tertul. contra Marc. c. 4. Euseb Caesar in Parall Damasc l. 3. c. 45 Cyrill Hierosol 4. Catech. myst Greg. Nyssâ— de Babâ— Chrâ—sti Aug Serm 87. de divâ—â—sis citat à Beda â—n Epist ad Corinth c. 10.2 Gaud. tract 2. in Exod. 3. Greg. Nâ—ss Orat. Catech. Amb. de init c. 4. Cyrill Catech. 4. myst Euseb emiss Sssrm 5. de Pasch 4. Justin Mart. Apol. 2. Iraen l. 4. c. 4. Theoph. Antioch 6. Chrys Hom. 83. in Matth. 7. Aug. Ep. ad Janua 2. Optat. That the Bread is made the Body of Jesus Christ 2. That of Bread and Wine are made the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ 3. That the Bread and Wine are changed converted and transelemented into the Body and Blood and in to the Substance of the Body of Jesus Christ 4. That they are the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ after the consecration 5. That we are made partakers of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ 6. That we touch and eat the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ himself 7. That the Body of Jesus Christ enters into the mouth of Believers 8. That his Body and Blood dwells upon our Altars That it is the proper Body of Jesus Christ That we receive truly his precious Body That it is truely the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ This Controversie consists to know if these words and innumerable others like them which are found in the Books of these holy Doctors ought to be taken in the proper and literal sence as the Catholicks maintain or if they are to be understood in a figurative and metaphorical sence as the Ministers pretend Now this Question is decided by the Agreement of all Christian Societies in the Article of the Real Presence since the Apostles it being they could not believe that Doctrine unless they had taken these expressions in a proper and literal sence I know that Aubertin strives to elude all these passages of the Fathers which the Catholicks make use of to prove their Doctrine by proposing other passages which seem like to them and which both in Scripture and in Fathers are taken in a metaphorical sence And I must avow that if in this point he shews no great exactness of Judgment at least he lets us see he is a man that has read very much for that collection he makes of Expressions seeming like to those he would explain could not have been done without a great deal of labour And I may say